Abstract Contrary to the commonly held belief that 1993 Oslo Accord was a peace treaty, this article shows it an imbalanced interim agreement unsurprisingly failed. Three decades later, Israeli-Palestinian reality is marked by massive expansion of Israel's settlement project, gradual erasure Green Line, symbiosis between Israeli security forces and settlers, authoritarian divided Palestinian le...

Tabernaemontana rotensis (Kaneh.) P.T. Li is an attractive small tree that endemic to the islands of Guam and Rota. Conservation efforts threatened population are constrained by lack research. Understanding ecology flower fruit development fundamental successful conservation angiosperms. This study determined extent induction following tropical cyclone defoliation, tested efficacy 10% urea spra...

one of the most important practices in flue-cured tobacco farming is topping and sucker control at the right time. topping cause's development and root growth, drought tolerance, reduce deployment pests, increased synthesis of nicotine. this study was conducted in randomized complete block design (rcbd) with 10 treatments in 3 replications over two years (2008-2009) at tirtash research and educ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether a repeated antenatal ultrasound examination improves fetal cardiac visualization for the obese and nonobese population. METHODS A computerized ultrasound database (October 1999-June 2003) was used to identify singleton pregnancies undergoing repeated prenatal ultrasound examinations because of initial suboptimal ultrasonographic vis...

The phase transition from vegetative to reproductive growth is a critical event in the life cycle of flowering plants. FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) plays a central role in the regulation of this transition by integrating signals from multiple flowering pathways in the leaves and transmitting them to the shoot apical meristem. In this study, we characterized FT homologs in the temperate grasses Brachy...

BACKGROUND Uveal melanoma accounts for 85% of the ocular melanomas and has an increased risk of hematogenous spread, most commonly to the liver. After curative intent therapy like surgery and radiation, fifty percent of patients present with distant metastasis. Metastatic uveal melanoma (MUM) does not harbor typically targetable mutations, e.g., BRAF as in cutaneous melanoma. As a result, there...

The study was conducted to determine the effects of nitrogen fertilizing systems and harvest frequency on levels of hard-seedness and hard-seed softening trend in M. scutellata var. Robinson. The study was carried out at Agricultural Research Farm of University of Tehran in Karaj during 2006. The experimental design was a randomized complete block with a split-split plot arrangement with four r...

FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) genes encode proteins that function as the mobile floral signal, florigen. In this study, we characterized five FT-like genes from the model legume, Medicago (Medicago truncatula). The different FT genes showed distinct patterns of expression and responses to environmental cues. Three of the FT genes (MtFTa1, MtFTb1, and MtFTc) were able to complement the Arabidopsis (Ara...

Phytochromes are dimeric proteins that function as red and far-red light sensors influencing nearly every phase of the plant life cycle. Of the three major phytochrome families found in flowering plants, phytochrome C (PHYC) is the least understood. In Arabidopsis and rice, PHYC is unstable and functionally inactive unless it heterodimerizes with another phytochrome. However, when expressed in ...

this study was carried out in order to identify the effects of soil water depletion (swd) on monogerm sugar beet (cv. shirin) seed growth trend at different growth stages. an experiment was conducted in randomized complete block design (rcbd) with three replications in ardebil agricultural research station. during 2002 and 2003 cropping seasons, nine treatments including control (irrigation aft...